Vetelia

Vetelia

Barasoain, González Ruiz, Tomassini, Zurita, Contreras and Montalvo · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TolypeutinaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Dasypodidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Dasypodidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Miocene — about 18 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 20 occurrencesPliocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.6–9.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.1–8.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.5–7.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.9–7.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–3.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.7–3.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16.3 Mya7.246 Mya20.9 Mya3.1 Mya

20 occurrences of Vetelia on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

20 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

9 formations

Cerro Azul — 36.25°S, 65.51°WCerro Azul — 37.37°S, 65.47°WCerro Azul — 36.56°S, 67.09°WCerro Azul — 37.10°S, 65.74°WCerro Azul — 37.14°S, 65.77°WChiquimil — 26.80°S, 66.07°WChiquimil — 27.22°S, 66.93°WChiquimil — 27.11°S, 66.83°WSanta Cruz — 50.23°S, 72.37°WSanta Cruz — 50.97°S, 69.17°WSanta Cruz — 50.05°S, 71.78°WPalo Pintado — 25.37°S, 65.92°WArroyo Chasicó — 38.62°S, 62.98°WEl Morterito — 26.57°S, 66.33°WCerro Boleadoras — 47.00°S, 71.62°WToro Negro — 28.61°S, 68.24°WLoma de Las Tapias — 31.47°S, 68.67°W

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The named rock units Vetelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vetelia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vetelia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

195 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Vetelia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

16 references

Each of the 20 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 4 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Vetelia

Credit
Barasoain, González Ruiz, Tomassini, Zurita, Contreras and Montalvo
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Vetelia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTolypeutinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1891